Zehrensdorf Indian cemetery

Description

These photographs were taken at a commemoration event on 1 August 2014. The municipality of the small town Zossen, the Evangelical Church, together with inhabitants and guests came together at the cemetery to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the First World War.

Context

Several hundred prisoners of war of African, Tatarian, Georgian, and South Asian origin who fought for the French, Russian, and British armies were buried during World War One at the Zehrensdorf Indian cemetery. Among them are 206 soldiers and sailors of the forces from undivided India who were prisoners of war in the nearby Halfmoon Camp in Wünsdorf, which today is an administrative part of the town of Zossen. The so called 'Indian Cemetry' is run today by the Commonwealth War Grave Commission (CWGC). From 1945 until 1990 the land on which the cemetery was built was under the control of the Russian Army. Restoration only began in 1990 and works were completed in 2000.

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Title

Colonial prisoners-of-war from the Halfmoon camp and the Weinberg camp at the Zehrensdorf Indian cemetery

Creator

Larissa Schmid

Date

1 August 2014

Type

Photograph

Rights

Larissa Schmid

Contributor

Larissa Schmid

Citation

Larissa Schmid , “Colonial prisoners-of-war from the Halfmoon camp and the Weinberg camp at the Zehrensdorf Indian cemetery ,” Cultural Exchange in a Time of Global Conflict, accessed June 7, 2020, http://sourcebook.cegcproject.eu/items/show/254.

Cultural Exchange in a Time of Global Conflict:Colonials, Neutrals and Belligerents during the First World War

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 291827.

The project ‘Cultural Exchange in a Time of Global Conflict: Colonials, Neutrals and Belligerents during the First World War’ is financially supported by the HERA Joint Research Programme Cultural Encounters (www.heranet.info) which is co-funded by AHRC, AKA, BMBF via PT-DLR, DASTI, ETAG, FCT, FNR, FNRS, FWF, FWO, HAZU, IRC, LMT, MHEST, NWO, NCN, RANNÍS, RCN, VR and The European Community FP7 2007-2013, under the Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities programme.